Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 2 | He has organised concerts for them in the past . |
| 3 | Rebel priest Fr Pat Buckley of Larne confirmed he has issued writs for libel against Dublin radio show star Fr Michael Clery . |
| 4 | He stopped making excuses for him ; he let his loyalty and his trust slip aside , and he saw Jean-Paul clear . |
| 5 | He rose to give thanks for the thanks . |
| 6 | He wants to buy things for me . |
| 7 | The district judge was undoubtedly aware of it , since it features in his lengthy rehearsal of the arguments , but he did not refer to it when he came to give reasons for his ruling , which was based exclusively on an examination of the merits . |
| 8 | But he still surrounds himself with women and he still takes his camera everywhere , although now he prefers making commercials for Reebok and Virgin Airlines to taking pictures . |
| 9 | Jason says : ‘ Gary 's got more money than the rest of us because he gets publishing royalties for the songs he 's written , but the rest of us just get a modest wage . ’ |
| 10 | No sooner had the late ploughing been completed than he began accepting contracts for harrowing . |
| 11 | Through these his knowledge of and interest in the Broads grew , and he began taking pictures for himself . |
| 12 | In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting . |
| 13 | As time grew short and the last days of peace slipped away , he began to make arrangements for his departure . |
| 14 | Returning to America he began to write features for the Toronto Star Weekly in 1919 and was married in 1921 . |
| 15 | Returning to America he began to write features for a newspaper called the Toronto Star Weekly in 1919 , and in 1921 was married of his own free will to a woman he had met and fallen in love with earlier . |
| 16 | Mr Ross had already built a substantial business when he began to approach banks for additional funding . |
| 17 | In 1891 he began making plans for a road and in 1893 he commenced work . |
| 18 | It was here he started making frames for re-building the Manx Norton motorbike . |
| 19 | I 've been thinking about Wilko 's choice of subs ( as well as the starters ) he seems to pick players for the bench one week and then not in the squad for the next ( e.g Strandli , Forrester , Ray Wallace ) Hopefully he will play Rocky tonight . |
| 20 | A more ruthless woman would have let the whole place slide into chaos until he learned to do things for himself . |
| 21 | He learned to knit clothes for himself and others , and on the wall of his Stuttgart home there hung a big , beautifully designed and stitched carpet which he made in 1952 while recovering from an illness . |
| 22 | He did take things for granted , though . |
| 23 | He had wanted children for years : not having them had been the one drawback to marrying late . |
| 24 | He revealed that he had made bids for reinforcements and reaffirmed that his major target was Manchester United outcast , Neil Webb . |
| 25 | Sometimes he would revert to a previous journey to a particular spot and described his personal experiences of several years before as in Vol I , pp. 111–113 when he describes how he had made sketches for plate Nos. 46 , 47 and 49 of Sixty Large Etchings . |
| 26 | She had sucked comfort with the distant vibration of Fenna 's breathing rumbling down to his tail tip , and he had spun stories for her and woven them into dreams . |
| 27 | He said he had heard calls for unity on every side , but for a unity of common interests , attitudes and culture shared by the two Germanys . |
| 28 | He had felt misgivings for a while . |
| 29 | He later revealed that he had had fevers for at least six weeks before arriving in Britain and was HIV positive . |
| 30 | She had accepted that he had had grounds for dismissing her at the time , considering the state of that little radio station 's finances . |